Sarah Jeong | |
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Born | 1988 (age 35–36) South Korea |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater |
University of California, Berkeley Harvard Law School |
Occupation | Journalist |
Employer | The New York Times |
Notable work | The Internet of Garbage |
Website |
sarahjeong |
Sarah Jeong ( /dʒɒŋ/; born 1988) is an American journalist specializing in information technology law and other technology-related topics. A member of the editorial board of The New York Times from 2018 to 2019, she was formerly a senior writer for The Verge and a contributing editor for Vice Media's Motherboard website. She is the author of The Internet of Garbage, a non-fiction book about online harassment.
Jeong was born in South Korea in 1988. [1] When she was three years old, her parents immigrated to New York as students and brought Sarah with them. [2] Raised as a Southern Baptist, Jeong attended a religious high school near Los Angeles. She later told Willamette Week that the Internet helped her to counter religious dogmas of her upbringing such as creation science, saying, "it's how I unbrainwashed myself". [3]
Jeong studied philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and received a law degree from Harvard Law School, [3] where she was editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender. [4] [1] She received a green card while attending college and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2017. [2]
Jeong writes on law, technology and internet culture. [5] [6] She is a former senior writer for The Verge and previously served as a contributing editor for Vice Media's Motherboard website, as well as writing articles for Forbes, The Guardian, and The New York Times. [7] [8] [9] From 2014 to 2015, Jeong and Electronic Frontier Foundation activist Parker Higgins published an email newsletter called "5 Useful Articles" about copyright law and the Internet. [10] [11] [12]
In 2015, Jeong covered the Silk Road trial for Forbes. [8] [13] That same year, she published The Internet of Garbage, a non-fiction book on the threat of online harassment [14] and responses to it by media and online platforms. [15] The book discusses active moderation and community management strategies to improve online interactions. [16]
In January 2016, Jeong posted a tweet caricaturing Bernie Sanders's supporters as Bernie Bros in response to online attacks against women and Black Lives Matter advocates. [5] A campaign harassing Jeong ensued that lasted for weeks and included rape threats; it drove her to make her Twitter account private and take an unpaid leave from her job at Motherboard. [5] [17]
Jeong was a Yale University Poynter Fellow in Journalism in 2016. [14] [18] In 2017, she wrote about the Trump travel ban. [2] The same year, Forbes named Jeong in its "30 Under 30" list for media. [1]
In August 2018, Jeong was hired by The New York Times to join its editorial board as lead writer on technology. [18] [19] The hiring sparked a strongly negative reaction in conservative media, which highlighted derogatory tweets about white people that Jeong had posted mostly in 2013 and 2014. [20] [21] [22] Critics characterized her tweets as being racist; Jeong released an apology, [23] [24] saying that the tweets were meant to satirize online harassment toward her as a woman of color. [20] [25] Editors at The Verge defended Jeong, saying that the tweets had been disingenuously taken out of context [26] [24] [20] and comparing the episode to the harassment of women during the Gamergate harassment campaign. [24] [23]
In August 2019, Jeong left The New York Times's editorial board, becoming an opinion columnist with the newspaper. [27]
Sarah Jeong | |
---|---|
Born | 1988 (age 35–36) South Korea |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater |
University of California, Berkeley Harvard Law School |
Occupation | Journalist |
Employer | The New York Times |
Notable work | The Internet of Garbage |
Website |
sarahjeong |
Sarah Jeong ( /dʒɒŋ/; born 1988) is an American journalist specializing in information technology law and other technology-related topics. A member of the editorial board of The New York Times from 2018 to 2019, she was formerly a senior writer for The Verge and a contributing editor for Vice Media's Motherboard website. She is the author of The Internet of Garbage, a non-fiction book about online harassment.
Jeong was born in South Korea in 1988. [1] When she was three years old, her parents immigrated to New York as students and brought Sarah with them. [2] Raised as a Southern Baptist, Jeong attended a religious high school near Los Angeles. She later told Willamette Week that the Internet helped her to counter religious dogmas of her upbringing such as creation science, saying, "it's how I unbrainwashed myself". [3]
Jeong studied philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, and received a law degree from Harvard Law School, [3] where she was editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender. [4] [1] She received a green card while attending college and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2017. [2]
Jeong writes on law, technology and internet culture. [5] [6] She is a former senior writer for The Verge and previously served as a contributing editor for Vice Media's Motherboard website, as well as writing articles for Forbes, The Guardian, and The New York Times. [7] [8] [9] From 2014 to 2015, Jeong and Electronic Frontier Foundation activist Parker Higgins published an email newsletter called "5 Useful Articles" about copyright law and the Internet. [10] [11] [12]
In 2015, Jeong covered the Silk Road trial for Forbes. [8] [13] That same year, she published The Internet of Garbage, a non-fiction book on the threat of online harassment [14] and responses to it by media and online platforms. [15] The book discusses active moderation and community management strategies to improve online interactions. [16]
In January 2016, Jeong posted a tweet caricaturing Bernie Sanders's supporters as Bernie Bros in response to online attacks against women and Black Lives Matter advocates. [5] A campaign harassing Jeong ensued that lasted for weeks and included rape threats; it drove her to make her Twitter account private and take an unpaid leave from her job at Motherboard. [5] [17]
Jeong was a Yale University Poynter Fellow in Journalism in 2016. [14] [18] In 2017, she wrote about the Trump travel ban. [2] The same year, Forbes named Jeong in its "30 Under 30" list for media. [1]
In August 2018, Jeong was hired by The New York Times to join its editorial board as lead writer on technology. [18] [19] The hiring sparked a strongly negative reaction in conservative media, which highlighted derogatory tweets about white people that Jeong had posted mostly in 2013 and 2014. [20] [21] [22] Critics characterized her tweets as being racist; Jeong released an apology, [23] [24] saying that the tweets were meant to satirize online harassment toward her as a woman of color. [20] [25] Editors at The Verge defended Jeong, saying that the tweets had been disingenuously taken out of context [26] [24] [20] and comparing the episode to the harassment of women during the Gamergate harassment campaign. [24] [23]
In August 2019, Jeong left The New York Times's editorial board, becoming an opinion columnist with the newspaper. [27]